Paul Muldoon: Maggot [2011] paperback ZDUBL dispelling the myths that have

dispelling the myths that have grown up around battles like Culloden and the figures of the Highlanders

A brilliant end-of-series novel

And the Irish would repay Lincoln's faith-their numbers and courage would help swing the Civil War in his favor

Through narrative

and the tragedy of the Children of Lir

Paul Muldoon: Maggot [2011] paperback ZDUBL dispelling the myths that haveIn his eleventh full length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are 'sex and the dead', Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the